Wagon end-gate



G. EVANS. WAGON END GATE.

No. 445,167. Patented Jan. 27, 1891.

Niri: SATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE EVANS, OF LYON, MISSISSIPPI.

WAGON END-GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 445,167, dated January 27, 1891.

Application filed October 17, 1890.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE EVANS, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Lyon, in the county of Coahoma and State of Mississippi, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tail Gates for Wagon-Bodies; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain novel and valuable improvements in end-gates or tailboards for wagons, which improvements will be fully understood from the following description and claim, taken in connection with the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view in detail of my improvement applied to part of a wagonbody. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the tailboard and its hooked tie-rod attached. Figs. 3 and 4 are sectional details.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Before describing particularly my invention I admit that it is old and well known in tail-gates for wagons to use a tie or brace-bar for binding the sides of the wagon-body and holding the same solidly against the tailboard. My main object is to attach permanently yet movably the tie-bar to the tailboard, so that the former will not be liable to loss or displacement.

Referring to the annexed drawings by lotters, A A designate the sides of a wagonbody, and 13 the floor or bottom thereof, which body may be constructed and mounted in the usual well-known manner.

C designates the tail-board or end-gate, which is provided posteriorly with battens or vertical braces D D. This tail-board is also provided with a horizontal tie brace-rod G, having hooks b b at its ends turned upwardly. This rod G passes freely and has end play through the braces DD, and at the mid- Serial No. 368,500. (No model.)

dle of its length it is squared, as indicated at d, and passes through a square recess made through a staple cZ driven into the board 0. The termini of the square portion (Z afford shoulders c. The brace-rod thus applied is free to be adjusted endwise, limited by the said shoulders. The rod is thus permanently but movably applied to the tailboard.

E and F designate inside facing-boards, secured rigidly to the inner sides of the side boards of the wagon-body, forming vertical grooves a a, adapted to receive the tail-board, as shown in Fig. 1.

On one side of the body is rigidly fixed a staplef, and on the opposite side is applied a movable staple g, adjustable by a nut h. Both staples are provided with links, the staple f with a link c and the staple g with link e, as shown in Figs. 1, 3, and 4.

IV hen the tail-board is put in its place, as indicated in Fig. 1, and the links a e are engaged with the hooks I) Z) on the endwisemovable rod G, the out It is screwed up and the parts are rigidly held and braced.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- N The combination of the body, the fixed and adjustable staples secured to the rear ends of the sides thereof, and the links connected to said staples, with the tail-gate, the longitudinally-movable horizontal rod attached to the gate and having its central portion squared and shouldered and passed through a staple attached to the gate by which the movement of the rod is regulated, and having its ends formed into upturned hooks adapted to be engaged by the links, all substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

lEORGE EVANS. Vitnesses:

JOHN T. BUTT, E. L. BROADDELL. 

